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i The Sioux County Journal, VOLU31E VIII. HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1890. NUMBER A7. GOWNS AND GOWNING WOMEN QIVI MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. SUmm at Fasciae Veaalalaai Vrtveleaa, Mayhap, aad Yet (Hhrea la tba Bap that tha Beadla Prave Baetfal ta Wearied WaaaaaktaaU Qaeeia tram Oay Oothaam. Maw York correipondeorei r O K T U B Awaits the devis er of a practica ble scheme by which a woman n control her dreeama Iter, How to manage this functionary 1 a really one of the serious questions of life. The best of us are In her hand. She can ruin our moat carefully laid plains; ghe can make or mar us for given occasion, for It depend up on her whether we triumph or are de feated, Our mere comfort, though that la secondary conalderatlon, Is absolute ly under her control. The admiration of the world, the security of our social position, the envy of our friends, do pond upon her, and we all know It. Thero la the wrapper, that primary essential. George likes you In some thing simple, something flowing, some thing dreamy, and you tell the dress maker all about It She say she o stiuiiei woot.Bjr An wiiitk cloth. known; leave It all to her. If you are a neophyte you do, anil behold.' home cornea a tight tilting alTalr like tlint shown In thl first small picture. It la pretty, but it has revers and things, a front of another color, a lot of at raps, and goodness knows what nil, and It doe not "flow" a bit. You should have selected a picture exactly like what you wanted. Then you should have warily produced the picture with an air of not thinking it very attractive after all, and have managed to make Madam Tyrant say It Is just the thing for you. Then having Insisted ou leaving It to her to modify according to her taste. It would have been ten to one that she would have sent you a very fair copy of the model. Any other plan seems absolutely certain to bring about some awful surprise In the way of style or material. Generally Madam Tyrant does not approve of the tailor-made dress. The only method by which you can secure her co-operation In the making of this sort of gown is to suggest very deli cately that you know a dressmaker does not like to make a tailor finish gown, and that you hope she will not mind your going for that particular gown to & Co., who make a special ty of that sort of thing. She will be come dreadful severe at once, but you or Ot BBOCA.DED III.K AMD BLACK SATIW. Imuat not Iom courage. Hue will say that gne can make as good tailor gown as any man aver did, but don't you weaken; pretend you don't want to 'bother ber and then go away. If you feu) m want to, you can try to arrange at a tailor's and you'll discover that they charge frightfully, and that tbey do not, after all, seem to know so very much more than Madam Tyrant does when she wants to. Then go back to her very meekly. Tell her that you hare had to giro It up. That you canuot find a tailor who sems to know a thing about it Tell ber that all you wnt Is a perfect fitting dress that will give you room across the chest, and that will have a skirt to clear the ground, hang well and yet not be too full to lift. Say plaintively that you cannot make a tailor show you any model that you feel like risking. Madam Tyrant will be very offish, but she will Imply that If she cares to do MOllK Ct.OTIt APPt.lqttKn AND FRIXOKT). such a gown she can do it all right and can make a tailor dress with anybody. It then remains to coax. If you prevail, depend upon It the gown will be pxaclly what you' want It will probably be like the gown In to day's second picture a compromise. She will put on a tnf, a frill, or a yoke somewhere. The only safe way is to deliberately plan for a compromise; tell her you do not like such a dress too stiff, and aHk her to give you a little soft silk chemisette, .something adjustable, Below It you can have waistcoat Mulsh. Tills she will probably accede to. .She does love a soft finish at the neck. Then, you see, you can take out tho adjustable soft affair and substitute a shirt front. Only don't let her catch you wearing the gown that way or she will take It out of you mi your next dress. The average dressmaker does not seem able to make a nice fastening down the front. A straight line of buttons fastening neatly Into button holes seems too much for her. That Is the real secret of the popularity of loose fronts of the sort incorporated in tlie next pictured costume. Even If a dressmaker has a loose front she seems to find It next to Impossible to mifVe a ship-shape fastening of the lining beneath. If women told the STRIPPED CIIAI.I.IR, WITH WHITE SII.K BI.OL'SK. truth how many of them would con fess to wearing gowns that did not come together as tbey ought under that graceful, pretty bag front? If you are really set on having your dress fasten as It ought under the front you must plan the front as If It were an after-thought. This 'may trick mad am. If she suspects you are lost! But then you are probably lost anyhow. If you want a cape you had better leave It entirely to her. There Is noth ing a dressmaker likes to experiment on so much as a cape. Give ber a general Idea of what you want, In duce ber to promise that she will not give you one or two things that you really don't want, and then go home aud pray. It was a cape of the sort pictured here that a woman got when she bought goods enough to make a cape that would reach to the knee. But the Tyrant said that all the rest of the material was In the applique design that was all over the cape. It was a pretty cape, though, so tho wise victim said that and nomlng more. Tou want to remenibo' that a little thing llk- a few yards does not conn OepyrifBt. ItM. Editor Thlf fellow Is littering the office up with miserable poetry. Wo II nave to put a cheek on htm. Poet (who has heard the word check, rushing up) I'll be obliged If you'll let me have the check right away, sir. Philadel phia North American. J 4if NOTES ON EDUCATION, j MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU PIL AND TEACHER. fba Severity of Palilalias nt t hould Mot Ba Arbitrary or Governed by the Teacbar'a Tamper What a Bove Mannar la Worth-Notee. The Dearree of Punlahment, The degree or severity of punishment hould not be arbitrary or governed by the teacher's temper, Every kind of offense should not only have Its proper kind of punishment, but every grade Of the offense should also have Its proper degree of penalty to be Inflicted, Tfce teacher should be governed by tbe fol lowing principles In determining the de gree of punishment. " Tbe Degree of Punishment Depends Upon the Nature of the Offense. Slight offenses or those of a nature not likely to Interfere with the welfare of the school or the teacher, need but alight punishment, while those of a more se rious character and likely to lead to greater violations of tlie school disci plliie should be met promptly with pud nsliment of greater severity. j The Degree of Punishment Depends Upon tba Motive of the Offender. Many seeming offenses are not meant by tlie pupils as offenses at all, and therefore need simply a caution and no punishment whatever, Iu a school of fifty children the teacher must expect considerable life and no little noise, but be must not think that every act of thoughtlessness on tlie part of the chil dren Is meant to Interfere with either his discipline or bis comfort. Huch of fenses aro without motive, and In any well-regulated school they must lie ex pocted as surely as we should expect lambs to frisk or birds to sing. The toucher who would punish them with severity would prove himself utterly unfit to have charge of children, and ut terly incompetent to fill the post of teacher. The. Degree of Punishment Depends Upon the Frequency of Repetition. The teacher Is sometimes unable to de termine the motive which actuates a child iu committing an offense for tho first time, but when the offense Is fre quently repeated the question Is not so difficult to solve. The first offense, therefore, unless tbe motive Is clearly understood, should not be punished so severely as the same offense when sub sequently repeated. The more frequent the repetition also the more severe In general should be the penalty. The Degree of Punishment Depends an the Difficulty of Detection The pun Isbuiont In every case ought to lie gov erned to some extent by the dlttlirulty which tlie teacher experiences Iu detect ing the offender. Conspiracies In school are always more difficult to detect than open violations of law. They are also rnoro dangerous to school discipline, and the punishment visited upon those who not only commit the offense, but who also seek to hide It and their con nection with it, should necessarily bo more severe than if no effort were made to screen themselves and batllo the tiiieher in his efforts at detection. Tho Degree of Punishment IVepends on the Age and the Sex of the Offender. A moderate degree of punishment to a hardy, well-developed youth might prove a great cruelty If Indicted upon a small child or a tender girl. In gen eral It will be found that mild corporal punishment is much more effective with small children thau with older pupils; to the latter an appeal to their sense of honor, a reproof, deprivation of privi leges, or placing them where they can not com municafe with their associates, is the most effective punishment. I doubt If gills, particularly those be yond tlie age of 12, ever should be sub jected to corporal punishment. They may be corrected In other ways much less dangerous, and the wise teacher will refrain from administering to them any bodily punishment, the result of which may be lifelong Injury. The Degree of Punishment Depends on the Temperament, of the offender. -The temperament of children differ as widely as their physical organization, and no teacher can reach all by the same method of procedure. The chol eric and the sanguine cannot be gov erned In the same manner as we would govern the lethargic and the phleg matic. A nervous, sensitive child re quires different discipline from that which we would apply to one of a dull, plodding, lethargic disposition. The degree of punishment as well as the kind, must vary according to the vary ing temperaments. To one whose sense of honor Is keen, and who Is character ,lxd by great nervous energy, a word of reproof Is of more consequence than a sound administering of corporal pun Itbmcnt to one of an opposite tempera ment It Is the dull, plodding work horse that needs the spur as an Incen tive, and not the llthe-llmbed, keen eyed Arabian courser. Raub's School Management. A Bov'a Manner. "His manner Is worth a hundred thousand dollars to him." That Is what one of tbe chief men of the na tion said lately about a boy. "It wouldn't be worth so much to one who meant to be a farmer, or had no opportunities, but to a young college student with ambitions It Is worth at least a hundred." The boy was a distant relative ol the man, and kad been brought up bj careful parents In a far off city. Among other things be had been taught to be friendly and to think of other persons before himself. The boy was on a visit In the town where the man lived. They met on the street, and the young er recognized the elder, promptly went to his side and spoke to blm In bis cordial, happy, yet respectful way. Of course, the man was pleased, and knew that anybody would have been pleased. The sentence above was the outcome of It, A little later the boy came Into the room just as tbe man was strug gling into his overcoat. The boy hur ried to him, pulled It up by the collar, and drew down the wrinkled coat un derneath. He would have done It for any man, the haughtiest or the poor est, The boy has not been In society a great deal. He has not learned ortho dox selfishness. He positively can't be easy at the table until his neigh bors are waited on; a chair is a tor ture if he thinks anybody else is less comfortably seated. He wouldn't In terrupt to let loose the wittiest or most timely remark ever thought of. He may learn to do so gome day after he has earned his hundred thousand, but It Is doubtful, The expression of his kindness may become conformed to popular usage, modified, refined, but tlie spirit which prompts the expres sion will only grow with his years. Do not misunderstand, boys. You may be truly unselfish and yet not have this boy's prize, you may wish to do things for others and yet feel that you do not know how. The ouly way to learn Is to try; to hesitate for no feeling of bashfulness or awkward ness, but to put Into direct and In stantaneous practice whatever kind, helpful thoughts occur to you. Con gregationalism Make Geography Interesting;. In teaching your little girl geography try to ninke It something more than a dry list of names to be learned by rote. Take ber imaginary voyages and jour neys from one country to another. Tell her something of the manners and cus toms of the people and anything you can learn yourself about the lives of the children. Describe to her how the SwIbs boys herd their cattle under the shad ow of the Alps and the Esquimaux are made daring by being thrown Into the icy water In their strange fur gar ments. Tell her of the stunted lives of the pit boys In the coal mines and of the (iermnn girls who learn to use their five knitting needles almost as soon as they can hold them. Hooks of travel will furnish you with many Interesting Incidents which you can turn to ac count. Geography will not be a weari some task to her. Her mother's wis dom enn make the first steps attrac tive Ladies' Home Journal. How Teachers Should Talk. It Is necessary for a teacher to talk a great deal, and to talk so as to be heard and understood. But In order to be heard and understood It is not nec essary to talk loudly, much less to snap and scream, as Is the custom with too many teachers, especially those who are Impatient, nervous, or irritable, who are obliged to work In a noisy room, or with a rebellious class of chil dren. The secret of talking easily and intel ligibly In a large or noisy room Is to fill the lung fully, and to refill them at every pause; to speak slowly; to speak wjth careful articulations, and to make all effort at the waist. This last Is tho important, matter, and can be accom plished only by those who can fill the lower part of the lung's and use the muscles of the diaphragm. Notes. University College has appointed a lecturer In English language and liter ature. There are 451 universities and col legos Iu tbe United States, of which 310 are co-educational. Harvard lias the largest attendance of any college In America, and the University of Paris of any college In the world. The Yale faculty state that some time will elapse before the new Bil lings professorship of $70,000 In En glish literature Is filled. The ladies of Fort Worth, Texas, have organized a kindergarten asso ciation with Miss Eliza Whltmore as president and Mrs. William Capps, sec retary. Tbe school board of Omaha hag sued Henry Bolln, late treasurer of the city, and his bondsmen for $32,533, which It Is alleged the school department lost through him. The State normal school of Ken tucky for colored persons asked of the Legislature an additional grant of $3,000, for the purposeof enlarging Its agricultural department The senate of Cambridge University, by a vote of 18 to 171, has re-elected the proposition to appoint a commit tee to consider the question of con ferring degrees upon women. Superintendent Skinner of the New York State Department of Instruction has prepared and had Introduced In the legislature of that State a bill re pealing the law of 180 which com pelled the public schools to give In struction on the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics. TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING JTEMS. Mteaad Criticiasae Baaed Dan tba Baaaaarlage af tba Iay Ble tarlcal and Newa Netea. A New York woman lost $40,000 gambling at Monaco. Of course, being a woman, she could not keep still about It We are pleased by the overthrow of tbe Wall street gold syndicate. J. Pler pont Morgan uses the word "whilst," and no man who does that can be trusted. It Is true Great Britain owns a little less than one-fourth of tbe land surface of the globe, but it exercises a sort of suzerainty over the watery portion thereof, which, as the maps show, is not only deep but vasty. Thirteen hundred British authors ask the American people to keep the peace. The American people do not Intend breaking It. The nation that refuses to arbitrate a question is the nation that contemplates breaking the peace. It is reported that a gold reef "of re markable thickness" has been discov ered in the Chota Nagpur district in Bengal, India, and an order issued by the government for the erection of stamps for the making of trial crush ing by which the value of the find will be estimated. Russia promises to build a new war ship every time England builds one. England orders a new warship or two every time the navies of any other na tion are enlarged. Some time, perhaps, In the. Interests of universal peace, this process will be reversed, so that each nation shall transform a warship into a merchant vessel every time any other nation does so. While 102 American vessels were con structed In 1805 for the ocean oaaujt trade, sixty-five vesnels were construct ed for the lake trade. The smaller number of lake vessels, however, la offset by the greater average tonnage. Not a single sea-going vessel was built of the size and capacity of a dozen large lake vessels. The commerce of the lakes aud rivers Is now as valuable as the coastwise commerce on the Atlan tic. The law carefully regards the secrecy of the relations between a physician and his patients. Not only ta he protect ed in a refusal to disclose facts thus obtained, but when be tells them for any purpose be Is liable to a severe pen alty. In sucti a case Just decided In England a complaining patient has been awarded $60,000 damage against a physician, and the Court ruled that It did not make any difference whether the story was true or false, so far as the question of the defendant's culpa bility was concerned. The newest antiseptic is one discov ered in Germany, and called potasslum orthodiuitrocrcsolate. To those who may be dissatisfied with the require ment to use so long a name it Is pro posed that they may employ the alter native antlnoumln. It Is said that one part of the substance in 1,500 to 2,000 parts of soapsuds is death to all the common parasites of plants, and that It destroys all bacteria, preserves for a long time yeast that is treated with It, and Is very cheap, besides having the desirable property of being odorless. If you lose your hat in 'tlie street, don't run after It. The wisest 'filing to do Is to tu.2.5J.lgw t'he Jjreje$lcnjjt mas in Ken in a calm and dignified man uer. The reason Is a veTy simple one 'The average man the moment he sees fit) neighbor's headgear scurrying along with bumpa and iboundis is Immediate ly excited to give chase. He prods at the hat wiitii his umbrella, jumps at it with botlli feet, spreads out both amis to ttairture It, and, In fact, works very hard. Why deprive the public of a lit tle amusement by running after 'tihe thing yourself? Of course, after your ndghOwr tias captured tihe hat it nuiy be In a dilapidated condition. But you I nave preanrved your dignity, a result worth more than tho price of a new hat. Affter much Indecision and frequent changes of unhid tbe ruler of England picked upon Alfred Austin as pout laureate to succeed Tennyson, The or iginal Intention to give the honor to IjowIs Morris was altered, and Morris was aocommodated with Mtle'by way of consolation. Alfred Austin, the new Incumbent, Is but little known t read ers on tills side of the Atlantic, although In England he baa won mucn adnHlra tion for the manly perseverance with Which he has continued to write poems on the royal family. Some of bis other themes are lackadaisical, but he has bean everlastingly 1n.p4red by ('lw nges In the weatfher, mucHi of tils verse handling thta subject exclusively. One feels throughout hla writing that here la an hones man who baa sat out to (be a poet and who means to bold fact to the Intention. He mlgtvt bave been hwppleriln tils selection of a profession, but nothing could exceed tbe patience With whch he Ihis applied blnmelf to Uio task of hi choice. It la hoped that the English public will cppradaRie Oils' SLKJceaaor of Tennyson. One can never read tbe poema of Alfred Austin wtrb oijt fe'liug confident hat he Is a very bice gentleman. He may be relied upon to give oat a good atrtliing's worrh of poetry every time a ui ember of the royal family its born or burled. .And this Is the cthlef end and aim of a poet laureate. It wax set up In defense of b Head owcrofJt brothers, of OhBcago, w4io m bankens ihad MUilen the money of their clients, that tbey ougtft oott to be crlm InaJly prosecuted, though the ttstute gadd so, because the statute wm uocon atiMutlonal In Hint it warn dlscrxminat lng against a iclasa. No apeutai pun. ishment ought to ibe provided iby a crim inal statute for tbe tranagreassona of a banker more tihan for the trHnMgres sions of a buttciher or a baker. The Supreme Court tore that pretense to shreds. A banker stands In tbe rela tion of a trustee for tbe money of the people. He receives money from a part of flue people and loans it to another pant. He sots hdnnself up as a captltialiet and makes a reputation as a safe man wit)h whom to deposit. The State stops In and lnsiwts that his pretense shall be made good at Ms peril. If It did not flhus guard the people as far as it can the business oif banking imiig'hit fail Into Che hawks xf scoundrels. There 1s no element of trade In the depositing of money. Tlie banker is ft custodian. The transaction Is on faith. Nor can it be pleaded itlhat no criminal charges can be ibrouglht unbil a final winding up of t(he Insolvency of a bank, wiiecher or not a dcjKxsitor has loelt through tho dishonesty of a banker. Tlie court ptrop erly olwerves that when the 'bank closes Its doors upon the depositor not'Jhdng la left Mm but the obligation of Mie bank er. If .tlie prosecution were delayed until Dhe .time of final windilng up of affairs it would 'be barred by Hhe stat ute of Mmkablon. Bankers, more than any other inen iu the community, have apoofflally a trust. If they fadl therein criminally Itthey oug'ht to be punlsvied with centailnty and eelemity, for ttiey have been guilty of a most outrageous breawth of fai'Uh If they have taken mon ey with the knowledge that tlie affairs are so involved that it is doubtful whefiher or not tliey can go on. A bank er asks credit and getis it, someitimes deservedly, sometimes otherwise. If he flails In 'his trust let h'l'm not (hope foT mercy. His breach Is greater than any other. It includes the nobbing of ths widow and tihe orphan. The Inside family reasons for the res ignation of Ballington Booth and his wife from the regular army, and for their refusal to obey the orders of Gen. Booth the senior, have never been di vulged, but there is little doubt that tbe cause of their defection was their Americanism. They have become American citizens. Under their admin istration the Salvation ariiiy In this country has become prosperous and has done a great and successful work In the slums. Much of this was due to Bal lington Booth, but most of It to his wife. Apparently envious of this suc cess, and finding his own name under an eclipse, the general of the army, a typical John Bull in aggressiveness, discipline, and personal authority, sought to reinstate himself In the Unit ed States and set up a personal sal vation machine of which he would be. the boss. He ordered his son and daughter-in-law to give up their places and go to England. When they re fused he sent commissioners 6ver to remonstrate jvlth them and Induce flienTto obeyor3ers. They were per-' slstent, however, in this decision. Then the old man indirectly pronounced the anathema Marauatha and called upon ?r-t: Tt- rt: -t r:r- - -r:--? - me iaus ana lassies oi tue army to pray for Balbngtojj a.rad Mau afjjjnnerji "who have fallen beneath analmost Unparalleled weighf of temptation and flattery," thus seeking to humiliate them In the eyes of their followers;1 The prayer policy, however, has not worked as he expected. Large num bers of tiiern, instead of praying, have deserted and gone over to the new standard of their old commander. Sen timentally the new army wJ have thjj sympathy oF Aiuerieans. Religiously there should be room for both organiza tions. There Is work enough to ac complish In the slums, to admit of any amount of competition. Practically the issue must depend upon the execu tive ability of Ballington Booth as com- ' pared with that of his father. In any event, one organization will be con ducted upon tbe broad general princi ples of religious societies and worked for the general good, while tbe other will remain at the exponent of the one man Idea that Idea Including personal ambition and lore of power as well as foreign military control, which la not Just now popular In this country. Duke Is Disappointed. The Insurance on the lift of tbe now Dnchsas of Marlborough for tar bu band benefit has had to be abandoned, owing t fke tsWhnatal 4U8cnMea In Iks way. Mr Dfot Punk-wwiHj, wh weal to Rwom n Waif of tbe syndicate el Lontten cbbMb etmoeriwd In the nau a nee to make an examination of thi . candliale, mode a satWrfactory report, and as k was practically a cave of Ir surlng tbe Dudhpsa' life sgainat thai of her fattier, no difficulties arose oa that scone. The dlfflcuRlfa were thoav of ofntiaktom and red tape. 1 T